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Video may have killed the radio star, but it’s the Internet that has strangled every other pop-music medium before it. In the past few months, the Web has stepped up its scorched-earth campaign with a mind-boggling host of new services — including Google Music, iTunes Match and Spotify — aimed at letting listeners hear any song at any time, in just about any place. Here’s a quick guide to the major players, and where you can get the most tunes for your treasure.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

The concept is simple: Pay a monthly fee and you get access to every song in a service’s library. You can download the tracks to your mobile device or computer and listen to them as much as you want for as long as you’re willing to fork over the monthly membership fee. All of them offer a free service of some kind, so you can try them out before committing. Ultimately, the decision will probably come down to which one of the services has the widest selection of stuff you want to hear.

Spotify

Fee: $10 per month for unlimited streaming

After dominating European eardrums for years, Spotify finally made its way stateside earlier this year. Tight Facebook integration, a huge library and an excellent mobile app make it a front-runner.

Rdio

Fee: $10 per month for unlimited streaming

Much like Spotify, the Web-streaming version of Rdio lets you listen for free on your computer, only it doesn’t subject you to ads. It also offers family-plan pricing if you want to upgrade to include mobile streaming.

MOG

Fee: $10 per month for unlimited streaming

MOG’s free service is more limited than the others, but its additional fee-based offerings are the best of the bunch. It also offers the best audio quality if you’re a stickler for that kind of thing.

IN THE CLOUD

The BYO school of cloud music is more for people who already have a large music collection and prefer owning their music. When signing up, you’ll have to upload all or at least part of your music collection, a process that can take days if you have thousands of songs. But once your stuff is in the cloud — i.e., stored on one of the giant servers run by the service — you’ll be able to stream it anywhere there’s Internet access.

Google Music

Fee: Free for up to 20,000 songs

Built around a tight integration with its Android platform, Google’s music solution lets you store your entire music collection online, and access it through a browser or an Android phone. It also offers a library of free songs to check out. If you’re an iPhone user, though, you’ll have to use the less-than-stellar browser version through Safari.

iTunes Match

Fee: $25 per year for up to 25,000 songs

When you sign up, iTunes checks your library against its servers and gives you access to stuff you already have. Anything it doesn’t have, you’ll have to upload. You can access your songs on up to 10 computers or iOS devices.

Amazon Cloud Player

Fee: $20 per year for 20 gigabytes of storage

If you get one of those new $200 Kindle Fires for Christmas, this will be your go-to service. Tracks bought through the Amazon store don’t count toward your cap, and you can get up to five gigabytes of storage free if you’re a little more selective about your music. If you pay for a $20 annual subscription, your cloud will also double as general-use storage, which means your Word docs and photos can live next to your music for remote consumption.

WEB RADIO

If you’re an adventurous listener, there are several services out there that subject you to the musical tastes of others. The biggest plus, however, is that none of them make you sit through painful DJ banter. These are often cheap or even free, so they work well for people who already have a decent collection, but are on the lookout for new sounds.

Turntable.fm

Fee: Free

On a computer, Turntable lets you sit in a virtual room and play DJ, selecting songs for others to listen to based on a theme or genre. Free Android and iOS apps allow listening on the go, but user-generated content means the quality varies wildly.

Last.fm

Fee: $3 per month for unlimited mobile access

Last keeps track of what you listen to on each of your devices — something it calls “scrobbling” — and tries to figure out your musical tastes to create custom radio stations just for you.

Pandora

Fee: Free

Long the standard for Internet radio, Pandora’s library now seems limited, but it does a good job of learning your tastes. If you’re OK with ads, you can’t beat the price.